Citing lack of evidence, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed an Indianapolis teen’s adjudication as a juvenile delinquent
for committing what would be Class A misdemeanor resisting law enforcement if committed by an adult. None of his actions suggested
any criminal activity was afoot.

Finding genuine issues of material fact exist in a negligence lawsuit as to the general contractor’s role in a subcontractor’s
injury, the Indiana Court of Appeals reversed summary judgment and ordered further proceedings.

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed that the owner of a building leased to a Bloomington pet shop that was destroyed by
a fire in 2008 is only entitled to the actual cash value of the building and not the replacement cost.

The Indiana Court of Appeals, after skirting around the issue in 2012, decided that Indiana should use the case-by-case approach
to address subrogation claims of landlords’ insurers against negligent tenants.

The Indiana Court of Appeals found I.C. 31-19-11-1(c) to be unconstitutional as applied and upheld the adoption of two boys
by their maternal grandmother. The judges held that her 1997 felony conviction for neglect of a dependent should not automatically
bar her from adopting the children.

Even though a man’s possession of child pornography charge was eventually dismissed, his arrest on the matter at a Bloomington
library led to other charges. The Court of Appeals Tuesday affirmed the denial of Paul Allen Decker’s motion to suppress,
in which he claimed any evidence stemming from that arrest must be suppressed.

The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a man’s 60-year sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend after an argument,
rejecting his claim that a special prosecutor should have been appointed in his case after his defense counsel took a job
with the prosecutor’s office.

The Indiana Court of Appeals dismissed a case in which the trial court set aside a previous judgment in order to have a chance
to get a new appeal. When doing so, the trial court noted, “hopefully the Court of Appeals wouldn’t frown upon”
the judge who did that.

A couple who sold a house they built themselves that contained numerous structural issues is on the hook for $280,000 to the
buyers of the home. The Court of Appeals found that the sellers made misrepresentations on their real estate sales disclosure
form.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed the adoption of a child by the maternal grandparents after finding the trial court
violated the father’s due process rights when it did not rule on his request for counsel.

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed that the purchaser of property in a tax sale substantially complied with the statutory
requirement that the owner of record is notified about the buyer’s intent to petition for a tax deed.

The Indiana Court of Appeals has affirmed a man’s misdemeanor handgun charge after finding the police did not need a
search warrant to retrieve the gun after the man placed it inside an apartment in view of the officers.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed the denial of JPMorgan Chase Bank’s motion to intervene in a homeowners association’s
attempt to foreclose on a home to fulfill a judgment. The COA found that the bank did not have actual notice of a pending
action against the homeowner in 2007, as the association argued.

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s decision to not instruct a jury in a personal injury action regarding
the spoliation of evidence. Margaret Dawson, the injured party, had ample time to inspect the mat she tripped on before the
store replaced it.

Finding the state did not prove that the parental rights of a man – who learned he was a father while incarcerated pending
trial – should be terminated, two of the three judges on a Court of Appeals panel reversed.

Finding that the “F” a Purdue University student received after her teacher discovered the student plagiarized
comments from other students amounted to disciplinary action from the school, the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld the decision
that her father no longer had to pay a portion of her school expenses based on a previous court order.

A defense attorney’s failure to raise the consecutive sentencing limitation prejudiced his client, the majority of a
Court of Appeals panel ruled, reversing denial of post-conviction relief for a man convicted of multiple burglaries. The court
remanded for resentencing to trim six years off a 28-year prison term.